what are good benchmarking tools

[dmartin at LanCity.COM (Derek Martin)]

On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Christoph wrote:

> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I've just loaded a old sparcIPC with RH 6.0 for sparc.  I am configuring the
> box to operate as a proxy/firewall for my DSL line being installed in a
> few weeks.
> 
> Answers from the linux/sparc mailing lists seem to indicate that the IPC
> is capable of performing this function.  But I would still like to run
> some benchmarks.  What tools/techniques can anyone recommend for generating
> meaningful numbers so I can see exactly what the IPC is capable of...

I can't make any recommendations as to benchmarks, but if memory serves
the IPC has an SBUS architecture that can handle data transfer rates of
over 100Mbps, and since your DSL isn't likely to be more than 1Mbps and
all you'll really be doing is pushing data back and forth over the bus,
you shouldn't have any problems.

-- 
Derek D. Martin   |  UNIX System Administrator
derek at netria.com  |  dmartin at lancity.com

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